Toronto graves

On my visit to Mount Pleasant Cemetery in midtown Toronto, I found the family plots of three generations of Weston’s. A dynasty started by George Weston and eventually passed on to his son, W. Garfield Weston, and finally to his son, Galen Weston. George Weston  It began years earlier when the Weston family relocated from […]

Visit the memorial plaque for Carl and Margaret Atwood at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto and learn how their lives helped shape writer Margaret Atwood’s imagination.

On my bike ride from downtown Toronto, I arrived at Prospect Cemetery on St. Clair Avenue to visit the family graves of Canada’s fourteenth Prime Minister, Lester B. Pearson. My first visit was to Lester’s immediate family plot where his father, The Reverend Edwin Arthur Pearson a Methodist minister and his mother Annie Sarah Bowles Pearson rest, along with […]

Visit the grave of Angelo DelZotto at Mount Hope Cemetery in Toronto and learn how his family built Tridel into one of Canada’s great real estate dynasties.

Visit the grave of Thomas Russell at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto and learn how the CCM president helped shape Canadian bicycles, automobiles and hockey skates.

After graduating in ophthalmology from the University of Toronto, he had leading practices in several locations in Toronto and cared for many young children at Sick Kids.